I guess I luck out in this respect-- I always buy my coats large enough to layer a jacket under, because I am likely to wear a jacket and a sweater under them in the dead of winter.
I can also wear my jackets indoors many places, including my workplace and most of my friends homes. Most of my friends are on a budget and keep their homes cool accordingly. My man friend runs hot, so also keeps his home cool. My workplace is almost always 63 degrees, although the offices themselves are sometimes warmer. I can't stand it when people overheat, I literally feel ill! Still, I like to layer and always make sure I can take the jacket off if needed indoors (so I wear decent ts and light long sleeves under many jackets rather than shells).
Shoes are a totally different issue. I always like to take muddy or snowy boots off indoors, which can be a problem because sometimes the man friend doesn't and then I'm stepping in icy, muddy puddles---- same with a lot of my family, which is irritating because that can ever ruin house slippers without a rubber sole! I do try to remember to bring "inside shoes" or slippers to parties because my feet will freeze even in normal socks. I have a pair of Klogs brand shoes with a 1.5 to 2 inch heel that I wear mostly inside in the winter, but that is the pair I bring to ppls houses if I am wearing a pair of pants that would drag the ground in normal house slippers. We have very few if any Asian people in my area, so it is usually a "keep the house clean/protect our floors/keep germs out thing" rather than a cultural reason, so my "clean" indoor/house Klogs work. Plus, they keep my toes warm, covered, and comfy.
Spring is my absolute least favorite season where I live. I loved it when I lived in NM and it meant spring rains, the desert blooming, and cherry blossoms on the local college campus. In southern Colorado, it is ugly, muddy, grey, dead, and cold until practically summer, but without the snow of winter. I feel silly dressed in spring colors during this time of year, so I stick with my winter wardrobe.
Surprisingly, I don't get that sick of stuff, but I do make an attempt to wear things that are colors that enhance the end of my summer glow/golden undertones and copper in my hair more in fall, while I save things that make the shade of ivory I revert back to in the winter look regal rather than greyish and washed out. I'm a dark autumn, but can wear both winter and autumn colors to some extent, but am more likely to play around with making my own coloring/contrast look dramatic rather than playing with color itself later in the year.
